Posts from the past
Penultimo posts relating to Ultimo’s history
- Ultimo Murder-Suicide in 1916
- Vale Jeff Carter
- Hackett Street, 1930s and 2010
- Air Force Dental Mechanics in Ultimo, c. 1940s
- Walter Burley-Griffin and Marion Mahony-Griffin Incinerator
- Audio Tour by Anni Turnbull
- That aint no lane (Hackett Street)
- The Naming of Ultimo
- Not a place to educate ladies
- A rather grimy history of Wentworth Park
- Ultimo Public School Football Team 1954
- One of the many Lost Pubs of Ultimo
- Cottages of Athlone Place, 1900
- Farmers & Graziers
- Population Statistics
- Ultimo Milk Carts
- Harris Street, 1948
- Ultimo Quarries: Paradise, Purgatory and Hell Hole
- Locomotive No. 1 pulled by a Horse Team, c. 1939
- Ultimo Power Station
- John Harris: Surgeon, Goody-Goody, Man of bad puns
- The Institute of Technology in the 1970s
- The Former Ultimo Post Office
- A walk down Omnibus Lane
- Ultimo Tram Depot
- A Deco Dunny on Wattle
- Too much time at the library (a poem)
- New Zealand Loans & Mercantile Woolstore
- Michael R. Matthews’ book on UItimo
- Antonino Macinante’s Fruit and Vegetable store, c.1927
- The Harris Family: Many Johns, Many Mayors
- Alan, 94, walks. (In Ultimo)
- Harris Street, 1955
- The Government Printing Office
- James Hay facade in the 1920s
- Charlie Hackett: Cigar man, King of Ultimo
- View of Ultimo, 1909
- Dalgety Square window washers
- Local politics: old Labor days in Ultimo
- Goldsbrough Mort Woolstore History
- Early freeway plans over Ultimo: it could have been so much worse
- 1977 Freeway plans - car dependence, compromise and state governance
- Ultimo Bay, 1837, and the boring things Europeans do to country
- George Street, 1906
- Elegant sewer typography
- Ultimo Public School, 1964
- Edwin Davey Flour Mill and Railway Siding
- Baby Murders and the haunting of Wattle Street
- Pyrmont-Ultimo in the 1990s
- Strikes, Printers and Newspapers (Fairfax in 1976)
- Iron Bridge (bendy bridge), 1964
- Remembering old markets
- 120th anniversary of TAFE Sydney Institute of Technology
- Old Ultimo map
- Ada Place, 1964
- Queen Elizabeth II in Ultimo? At least … in Darling Harbour, 1988
- Government Printing Office publication, electoral rolls, 1969
- Government Printing Office in 1957, prior to completion
- Terrace house demolition, Jones Street, 1982
- Department of Public Works Report, 1986-87
- Darling Harbour before redevelopment (1985)
- 1864 Columbia Proof Press hanging around in a TAFE carpark
- Wentworth Park historical tidbits
- Past and present photo mashups
- The Benevolent Asylum on Thomas Street
- Darling Harbour during construction, 1980s
- Construction of the Western Distributor - 1973 film
- Portrait of John Harris
- Fig Street Fiasco - 1974 Zubrycki Protest film
- Data entry staff at the Ultimo TAB Headquarters 1974
- Sydney Boys’ High School Science Class 1911
- Ultimo Primary School Headmaster 1954
- Gunshots and robberies, 1917
- Postmarked stamp from Ultimo Post Office
- Wool store fires in Ultimo
- Construction of the Western Distributor, 1984
- A section of the Canteen Menu from the Government Printing Office, c. early 1980s
- Banana gas explosion in 1935
- Archaeological discoveries in Ultimo / Haymarket
- Recollections of Ultimo (and of the Government Printing Office)
- Ultimo’s racing woman: Vida Jones
- Pubs of Pyrmont & Ultimo - Finally, a comprehensive list
- Ramshackle 1860s cottages in Chippo
- Harris Street in the past
- Railway Square in 1927
- Archaeological digs at the Gehry construction site
- Complaints in 1908 about Sydney - The Untidy City
